Editors:
- First textbook to integrate hard and soft leadership skills
- Leadership is approached from a personal and professional perspective
- Features contributions from leadership scholars and practitioners from around the world
- Includes such elements as practical cases, interactive questions, experiential exercises and reflection pages
- Reviews conventional as well as non-conventional leadership qualities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Soft Skills
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Front Matter
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About this book
This textbook provides a clear understanding of leadership needs in today’s business world, explained within the scope of hard and soft leadership skills. It captures qualities and skills such as spirituality, empathy, moral behavior, mindfulness, empathy, problem solving, self-confidence, ambition, knowledge, global understanding, and information technology. This text explains and provides guidelines for the implementation of each skill and includes examples from contemporary and historical leaders inviting the reader to consider each quality and engage in self-reflection. This book deviates from excessive theoretical descriptions presenting a timely, hands-on approach to leadership.
Featuring contributions form academics and professionals from around the world, this text will be of interest to students, researchers, professionals in business and leadership who aspire to lead beyond their immediate environment.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Business, Woodbury University, Burbank, USA
Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman
About the editors
Joan has authored/co-authored/co-edited more than 14 books on management and leadership topics, including Business and Buddhism (2015), in which Buddhism is approached as a leadership psychology, and Leading and Mindful Behavior Action, Wakefulness (2014), in which she provides directives to leaders to adopt a wakeful mindset and abstain from the sleepwalking mode. She is also the author of Courage in the Twenty-First Century (2013) and The Awakened Leader (2007), and co-author of, among others, Leading Spiritually (2014), Business Administration Education (2012), Laughter is the Best Teacher (2011), Stories to Tell Your OB Students (2011), From Me to We (2011), Managing in the 21st Century (2011), The Workplace and Spirituality (2009), and Spirituality in the Workplace (2007).
Joan is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of three scholarly journals: The Business Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of Global Business Issues, and Interbeing, Journal of Personal and Professional Mastery. She presents a weekly radio program titled “De Andere Kant” (The Other Side) on Mart Radio, and has been a long-time columnist for De Ware Tijd (The True Times), one of the largest newspapers in Paramaribo, Suriname. More info about Joan Marques is available on her website, joanmarques.com.
Satinder Dhiman, PhD, EdD, currently serves as a Professor of Management and as the Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program at Woodbury University’s School of Business in Burbank, California. Professor Dhiman has also served as the Chair for a special MBA Program for Mercedes-Benz executives, China. He also serves as Accreditation Mentor ans Site Team Leader for Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) for various universities in America, Canada, Europe, and India. He has been recently elected as the President of International Chamber for Service Industry (ICSI), 2014-2016. He has also completed advanced Executive Leadership Programsat Hartford, Standford, and Wharton.
Recipient of several national and international academic and professional honors, Dr. Dhiman won the Woodbury University Ambassador of the Year Award 2015; Steve Allen Excellence in Education Award in 2006, and the prestigious ACBSP International Teacher of the Year Award in 2004. In 2013, Dr. Dhiman was invited to be the opening speaker at the prestigious TeDx Conference @ College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California. He is the founder and Director of Forever Fulfilled, a Los Angeles-based Wellbeing Consultancy that focuses on workplace wellness and self-leadership,
Dr. Dhiman' work has been published in multiple national and international journals, and he has authored, co-authored, and co-edited ten books on management and leadership over the last 7 years. His current research on fulfillment, which is also the theme of his book, Seven Habits of Highly Fulfilled People (Personhood Press, CA, 2012/.20145), is focusedon transformative habits of the mind for attaining lasting joy and fulfillment in both personal and professional life. In his most recent book, Ghandhi and Leadership (Palgrave Macmillan, USA, 2015), Dr. Dhiman offers perceptive insights into the spiritual and moral mainstay of Gandhi's exemplary leadership and its abiding influence on the world today.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leadership Today
Book Subtitle: Practices for Personal and Professional Performance
Editors: Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31036-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31034-3Published: 07 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80947-2Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31036-7Published: 24 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 419
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Organization, Human Resource Development